[ms4w-users] Can't get rid of parsing error while trying the "hello world" and Itasca test in Mapserver

[Jeff McKenna]

I don't think it's a problem with your environment.  I have seen that
error before, and it's due to changes in MapServer 5 affecting that
Itasca demo.  You can grab an updated version of the Itasca demo
configured for MS4W:
- download the "MapServer Itasca Demo Application" from
http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=downloads.html
- extract it at same root as your ms4w
- restart apache
- goto http://127.0.0.1 and look for the Itasca demo link at the bottom

jeff


On 2/13/08, Joe Nannery <joealan at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm new, and am currently having trouble figuring out what's wrong with my
> .map files. I've checked all the lines in my .map files for missing
> parenthesees. I'm getting this error when I try to click the button to load
> both test map files:
>
> loadWeb(): Unknown identifier. Parsing error near (C):(line 1)
>
> Is there something wrong with my environment? Are there differences in
> reading code in version 5.0.0. I am using Windows XP, Mapserver 5.0.0,
> Apache, and PHP 5.2.4.
> Any help is appreciated!
> Here is my sample hello world .map file:
>
> MAP
> NAME "Hello Test"
> STATUS ON
> SIZE 400 300
> IMAGECOLOR 249 245 186
> IMAGETYPE png
> EXTENT -1.00 -1.00 1.00 1.00
> WEB
> TEMPLATE "c:/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/hello-test.html"
> IMAGEPATH "c:/ms4w/mapfiles"
> IMAGEURL "/mapfiles/"
> END
> LAYER
> STATUS default
> TYPE point
> FEATURE
> POINTS 0.0 0.0 END
> TEXT "Hello World"
> END
> CLASS
> STYLE
> COLOR 255 0 0
> END
> LABEL
> TYPE bitmap
> END
> END
> END
> END